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Great topic for the board here, and I look forward to your article.

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Low pro's and jspout's for me. When I first got back into collecting it was all cones but it didn't take me too long to realize it was too many so I have been cycling the hi pro's out. I find the prewar cans to be more interesting, the colors and graphics are amazing on a lot those cans. The postwar cans start to gravitate toward the designs and labels we are more familiar with in the 70's cans, they just lack that vintage antique feel to me, I like old rare stuff. I would probably collects prewar OI's as well but it just gets back to the too many problem. I am sure I will change my focus again over time.
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Early non USA tabs flat and cones and early non USA breweriana. Also worldwide crowns and matchbooks.
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Leon wrote: Fri May 12, 2017 10:01 pm Note: Can collection includes 4 snap-caps (3 Pabst and 1 Burgie)


No Lucky's?
The Lucky is not an OI.....

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Flats, cones, quarts from DC, VA, MD, OH, and KY. Plus some Philly breweries (Gretz, F&S, Esslinger, Adam Scheidt*). 7 and 8 oz flats (especially Goebels). Many 1950s sets**. Micros from DC, Dayton, Yellow Springs, and Athens Ohio. Primo cans. Halloween cans (worldwide). Sterling flats and zips***. Lucky flats. **** Cincinnati Reds and DC Nationals cans. Kruegers, although it's getting harder and harder to get new ones.. Straight steel Japanese cans. For breweriana, anything from Gunthers. Some small Heurich breweriana items. That's quite a few niches, isn't it?


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** Drewrys (all), Quizzies, Gretz, some Meister Brau, Rainier Jubilee cartoon series, Red Tops, Gettleman, Schmidts, Pfieffers, Rheingold Girls.
*** used to dump so many in KY I rather like them.
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MILLER cans (especially aluminum soft cross) and weird tab tops that came out between the pull tab and the sta-tab.
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Wisconsin flats, tougher tabs, zips
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Wisconsin cans, cones, flats, pre 70's tabs. Would love to get an Old Wisconsin O.I. that's a pipe dream !
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Here's what's been assembled so far. I welcome any comments or suggestions.

I will keep adding everyone's posts before I submit it for consideration to the editors. There's no way they would use them all. But if I give them plenty of your comments to choose from, maybe they'll find something useful in the story overall. No way to tell how they'll think. All I can do is try.

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Simple but great thread.

I grew up in Michigan, and since beginning collecting again about 2000, have lived in Maryland/DC. So of course, I collect California cans from 1935 to 1970. Everything, gallons to mini coin banks.

I have about a thousand and counting. I'm a variation freak. You chase everything that's in the USBCs, then everything that isn't in the USBCs. You think you've seen it all, but something surprises you every show.

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Ummm Let see here. I collect Wildlife theme breweriana. Wisconsin, Minnesota and U.P. cans in Flat, Cones and zip and older pull tabs.
plus some cool cans.
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Any can from Chicago pre 1975 or so. Rod S.
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MI-Cans wrote: Sun May 14, 2017 9:53 am Here's what's been assembled so far. I welcome any comments or suggestions.

I will keep adding everyone's posts before I submit it for consideration to the editors. There's no way they would use them all. But if I give them plenty of your comments to choose from, maybe they'll find something useful in the story overall. No way to tell how they'll think. All I can do is try.

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Excellent structure of all the various collecting arenas! I can think of one thing that is collected, but not shown......that's cans with prices on them....like the "6 for $0.99" stuff.

Great work!

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Rand,

Appreciate the compliment and the input. I added that category under "Can Themes".

I'll keep adding everyone's input until it tapers off. The PDF will be updated as I add things.

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Pre 1975 Canadian cans.
Trays from Canada, Western New York and Western Pa.
small collection of pre 1975 US tabs I like.
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I have a wall shelf of about 200 cans I have dug, 3 cans were traded or giving to me... have a few IRO and STEINS, SIMON PURE cans around bar.. I like to buy clean GENNY cans to throw around my bar.. i like and have some Fishing BEER related signs, I have some GENNY and Buffalo brewerianna thats about it.... have some cans with fish on them as well .. I like having the cans/signs/stuff around the basement bar area- brings me back.. I have no WANT LISTS, just get when its stuff I want
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I collect Straight steel tabs from the US only. I have a dumped myself collection, flats and cones only unless I dump a tab I need for the main collection (rare). I will also pick up an occasional piece of Chicago breweriana like trays, bottles, coasters, etc.
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Due to limited space, my can collection is focused on flats and cones from Michigan (my preference), Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. I also collect foreign cans but only if I bought them myself in the country of origin. I also have a few odds and ends that I like too much to give up. For example, I have the Olde Frothingslosh color set and a couple other odds and ends.

My breweriana is nearly entirely focused on the Fox Deluxe Brewery (Grand Rapids) location. I used to collect breweriana from other locations but it is currently in storage above my garage and will eventually be sold.


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A little late to the party but..... Yoerg and other Minnesota-Wisconsin small breweries. Can, breweriana, labels all of it.
And anything to do with Native Americans... That part is getting out there with 2nd order stuff- Like John Hauenstein- in the 1862 Minnesota Siouox Uprising he was a cooper, and a badass. Rushed into a house with several others to get Sioux out of it as they were shooting at folks in New Ulm. He was only a cooper then but I think he got two baddies.

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What about the Pabst Export TAPacan coaster from 1935 or so???
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I consider myself a CAN Collector first and foremost. I like Flats, Cones and Quarts and am recently been trying to buy them in 2- condition or better. I am currently heavy into the Quart Cones. I collect a few breweries and have many items from them displayed together. Narragansett is by far my #1 brewery followed by Tru-Blu, Esslinger, Krueger and Fitzgerald's. Even though I think of myself as a can guy first I also have many signs, trays, ball knobs, ect on display. I have also started a small OD side collection somewhere along the way even though I don't remember doing so on purpose.....

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hemmings wrote: Sun May 14, 2017 10:12 pm HEY RAND re-Note: Only 1 coaster I know of pictures an OI can - Hulls

What about the Pabst Export TAPacan coaster from 1935 or so???
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Makes sense that Pabst would have an OI coaster.....they are in every other type of advertisement.....thanks for the pointer! Have never seen it, but I'm sure it just never crossed in front of my eyes before......if anybody has an extra let me know!

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Conehead wrote: Fri May 12, 2017 2:55 pm All sizes of Cone Tops, including Soda and International.

Have just recently started adding breweriana that has a cone pictured in it.

Breweriana that has a bowling theme.

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OK....I'm busted.....but I suppose everybody here has a minor exception or two to their generalized collecting rules. So, of course, as soon as I say I exclusively collect OI stuff......page 5 of the May/June BCCA magazine shows one of my non OI things....the Jax "Texas Brags" tray. As a matter of fact, I have a bunch of non-OI stuff, but I don't consider myself a collector of them. I'm not shopping for Yosemite stuff, or Texas stuff, or assd trays, or my old tab/pulltop collection, or the pink cans I decorated a bathroom with, or the 99 cent cans i decorated my spare bedroom with.....or that Falstaff skiing poster I bought at the Canvention right in front of Harold Sugarman......but they do clutter the place up.....that doesn't mean I'm a collector of them does it? :-)
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Chicago cans (no craft cans) & bottles, Olive Drab cans, West Coast IRTP cans, and western 1950s cans that I like.....
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My grandfather and his brother worked at the Buckeye brewery here in Toledo forever, so I collect everything Buckeye. I'm also one of those kids who started collecting beer cans back in the 70's and competed with my friends on our collections. Those 70's can are so commonplace that they aren't all that interesting to me (other than Toledo canned beers), but when I got interested in collecting again a little over a year ago, I wanted this (my current collection) to reflect on what I collected and tried to collect as a kid, so I now collect the earliest versions (mostly WWII and earlier - IRTP) of the same cans that were commonly found in this region when I was collecting as a kid - sort of a grown up version of my childhood collection. So that's what I collect now; 12 ounce cones and flat top cans of the brands I collected back then, but mostly could not get in flat tops or cone tops... The only tab tops in my collection come from Toledo, with the exception of some Old Frothingslosh cans which are a sentimental reminder of what got a lot of our collections started back in the day...
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As of now (until I pay off my renovations) I'm collecting Keith Norton-style. As in, I scrounge up cans from outside the hobby and keep a few interesting ones out of that stream. So I added an aluminum current from Lesotho when my wife went there for Peace Corps, a Black Label flat from a flea market, an Old Georgetown mug from an estate sale, a quart crowler from my local brewery, and an early Pabst zip from a flea market. Like so.

I did quarts for a long time (along with MD/DC, New England, blue/silver cans, cans with mountains or lakes on the label, art deco cans, cans with old guys holding mugs of beer, and so on) and ended up feeling a little constrained when neat cans came available that didn't fit my categories. I decided it was better to have no categories!
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On-grade cones and flats, When I go to a show, this is my priority list:
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7. ...and of course, BEER BAGS!
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Mr. Beverly asked me at Blue Gray severral years ago, when I had just re-entered the hobby, what my collecting niche was. :smt017 I collect cans, right? After I thought about it, my answer was "I collect cans I like". I prefered not to put too many restrictions on myself. That caused my collection to quickly swell way beyond displayable numbers, so I had to start some focusing. Here's where I ended up:
1. 12oz cans I like. Flats, SS and Cones that have labels that appeal to me that I feel would add to my display. A few brands and breweries have come to the front.. Grace Bros, Maier, Gansette, Gunther and Valley Forge (from digging them up as a kid), Kruger, Red Top, Genny etc...
2. Poker themed cans - Trumps, Ace, Ace Hi, ...
3. 24 oz currents (mostly that I drink myself)
4. 12 oz/ 330 oz cans from countries I visit and drink myself - I have about 50 Chinese cans.
5. Quarts
6. Gallons - I have about a dozen

What I don't collect
16oz except for a few favorites (Soul, Ace Hi, etc...) because they don't fit on my shelves.
Craft Cans - I think I have about 1000 that i have mostly drank myself but there's just no where to display them so they're in boxes. I'll keep saving new ones I drink but I don't seek them out anymore. I tried but was quickly overwhelmed. It's like trying to collect snowflakes in a snowstorm.
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Re: Describe Your Collecting Niche

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Rand wrote: Sun May 14, 2017 10:26 pm
hemmings wrote: Sun May 14, 2017 10:12 pm HEY RAND re-Note: Only 1 coaster I know of pictures an OI can - Hulls

What about the Pabst Export TAPacan coaster from 1935 or so???
Andy
Makes sense that Pabst would have an OI coaster.....they are in every other type of advertisement.....thanks for the pointer! Have never seen it, but I'm sure it just never crossed in front of my eyes before......if anybody has an extra let me know!

Rand :-)

Rand, Here's a pic of the Pabst O/I Coaster ( & Matches, ect,) LEON.

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Re: Describe Your Collecting Niche

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Can we please get back on the topic of the original post?

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